Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Tesla, c. 1890
Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan. In his honor, the Nikola Tesla Memorial Center museum was established on the site.
Tesla's father, Milutin, was an Orthodox priest in the village of Smiljan.
Tesla aged 23, c. 1879
Smiljan, Croatia
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Smiljan is a village in the mountainous region of Lika in Croatia. It is located 6 km northwest of Gospić, and fifteen kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway; its population is 418. Smiljan is best
Nikola Tesla
…1990s. In 2013, Time named Tesla one of the 100 most significant figures of all time. Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 into a family of ethnic Serbs in Smiljan, a village then in the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire and now in Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was a priest of the Eastern…
Statue of Nikola Tesla at the Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan